The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Money doesn't talk

    By jollyroger on Thu, 08/22/2013 - 8:14pm |

    Yes, I am a hypocrite, already on record chortling as big bucks Bloomberg shoved one up the NRA's ass. Call me pisher.

    Today in a rare ( perhaps unique) demonstration of courage, New York's City Council overrode the mayor's veto and imposed long needed oversight on a police department intoxicated with ( if statistics are to be believed..) crime suppression success.

     

    Before this vote, Bloomberg threatened to unleash the Kraken on overriders.

    Bloomberg has indicated he’d try to persuade lawmakers to change their minds, and the billionaire mayor has suggested he might amplify his message with campaign contributions: “We’ll see what I’m going to do. The bottom line is I make no bones about it: I’m telling you I’m going to support those candidates” who agree, he said this month.

    I will set this down to a calculation by potential waverers that the voters are smart enough to reward virtue.

    The good news is that Ray Kelly's days as police commissioner are surely numbered. ( The bad news, he may be tapped for Fatherland Homeland Security)

    Viva the City Council! Abajo Kelly!